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Gangnam B-Side

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:32:45 +0000

A city where days bustling with people and nights staggering under the twinkling lights coexist. A series of disappearances occur in the middle of Gangnam. Jae Hui, an employee at an entertainment establishment who holds crucial evidence, suddenly disappears, and Yun Gil Ho, a problem solver in the entertainment district, begins to search for her. Gil Ho is not the only one looking for Jae Hui.

Detective Kang Dong U, who was demoted after exposing his colleagues’ wrongdoings, is assigned to the investigation at the chief’s request, and prosecutor Min Seo Jin, who is favored by the chief prosecutor, is also following the case. As club officials use every means necessary to track down Jae Hui, a series of disappearances intertwined with various desires expose the dark face of Gangnam.

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Dong Jae, the Good or the Bastard

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 23:24:32 +0000

Seo Dong Jae is a prosecutor and works in the Cheongju District Prosecutors’ Office. He is ambitious and places a priority on his success as a prosecutor. Nevertheless, he is not completely cold hearted as a person. Due to the label given to him as a corrupt prosecutor, his future as a prosecutor is not bright at all. While mired in trouble over a redevelopment case, he takes on a high school student murder case. He begins to walk a fine line between his intuition as a prosecutor and instinct as an opportunist.

(Source: AsianWiki)

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Three Old Boys (2024)

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 02:00:32 +0000

Xu Guo Zhu, Cui Tie Jun, and Pan Jiang Hai are three veteran criminal police officers who are close to retirement. They have been horrified that police officers are no longer working in the same style as they did, only waiting for retirement. However, a contract fraud case recently received by the investigative detachment broke the peaceful lives of these three.

~~ Adapted from the novel by Lu Zheng.

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Customs Frontline (2024)

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:08:05 +0000

When a container ship mysteriously turns up in Hong Kong waters, local Customs officers sail into dangerous international drama. After boarding the vessel, a team led by Cheung Wan Nam and including young hotshot Chow Ching Lai discover dead bodies of crew members and a huge cache of arms, including a valuable compass suited for use in a submarine.

The haul of weaponry, thought to have been swiped from Thailand, is carted off to a government ordnance depot for safekeeping. When Thai Interpol officers arrive for an inspection, the arms smugglers rush in. The raid results in casualties and shellshocked officers, causing a rapid escalation in response. Customs’ ports and intelligence branches, headed by Kwok Chi Keung and Athena Siu respectively, must work together and go international in catching the perpetrators.

Appearing to be linked to a growing conflict in Africa, Chow and Thai agent Ying jet off to Loklamoa for to get a handle on how arms dealer Dr Raw is involved. The pair sense there’s a rat in Customs while back in Hong Kong investigators pin down the local shipping firm that’s in on the deal. Once the full picture emerges of how the arms turned up and where they’re headed, high drama is in store in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour.

(Source: FarEastFilm.com)

~~ Release dates: May 2, 2024 (Festival) || Jun 28, 2024 (Cinema)

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Numbers

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:54:16 +0000

An intelligent young man, Jang Ho Woo is employed by the Taeil Accounting Firm. His excellent memory, sharp observational skills, and his innate sense for numbers lead him to become the firm’s first high school graduate hire.

Ho Woo soon uncovers a web of systemic corruption and injustice that can only be stopped by dismantling one of Korea’s most prestigious accounting firms.

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Reborn Rich

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:19:10 +0000

Yoon Hyun Woo is a devoted, hard-working, and loyal secretary to the Jin family, which runs the lucrative Sunyang Group business empire. But one day, he is ruthlessly betrayed by the family, who frame him for embezzlement. He dies shortly after – but is miraculously brought “back to life” when he wakes up inside the body of the youngest male member of the family – Jin Do Joo.

After he realizes what has happened, he decides to take revenge. He hatches a plan to overthrow Jin Yang Chul, the cold-blooded and money-hungry CEO of Sunyang Group. Yoon Hyun Wo plots to use his new “identity” to formulate a hostile takeover of the group – and punish the people who killed him. But what role will be played in all this by a dogged public prosecutor named Seo Min Young, an anti-corruption investigator who becomes known as the “Sunyang Group Grim Reaper?”

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Bad Prosecutor

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 01:09:25 +0000

A story about a prosecutor named Jin Jung who is armed with bad manners and delinquency. He breaks down the sanctuaries created by wealth and power, and he even takes down the greedy people living in those sanctuaries. He uses expedient methods over conventional ones, tricks over standard procedures, and delinquency over sincerity in order to stop the corrupt authorities from undermining society.

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Again My Life

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 20:25:35 +0000

Kim Hee Woo had the lowest ranking grades in high school. Through perseverance and hard work, he was able to attend university and pass his bar exam. Today, he is an enthusiastic prosecutor. While investigating a potentially corrupt politician, Kim Woo is killed by an unidentified man, only to wake up fully alive.

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Shinbun Kisha

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:49:13 +0000

Matsuda Anna is a dedicated journalist who doggedly pursues the truth about a government corruption scandal even as powerful enemies seek to neutralize her reporting.

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Tracer

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 04:35:16 +0000

Hwang Dong Joo is the chief of taxation division 5 at the National Tax Service. He works hard to trace money that is hidden from the tax service. His team includes Seo Hye Young, who has a bright personality and his boss is Oh Young.

Meanwhile, In Tae Joon is the director of a regional tax office. He is an ambitious man, who has earned his way to the top through corrupt and illegal actions, all-the-while maintaining his cocky attitude.

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